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MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine's president has instructed security officials to strike the names of three BBC journalists off the country's sanctions list, a day after he signed the decree, his spokesman said on Thursday.<p>Petro Poroshenko late on Wednesday signed a sanctions list barring nearly 400 …

<b>A decision by rebels in eastern Ukraine to hold elections poses a "great danger" to the peace process, President Petro Poroshenko has warned.</b><p>He also announced sanctions on over 400 people and 90 legal entities held responsible for Russia's annexation of Crimea and the conflict in the east.<p>The …

Russian forces busily resupply for Ukraine ahead of a Spring offensive, according to numerous sources including a former head of Nato. According to my own sources in Ukraine, where I was two weeks ago, Russian military assets have spread broadly all along Ukraine’s eastern border formed up in three …

On a gusty spring day in 1986, Natalie Jaresko asked 500 Chicagoans gathered at Daley Plaza to pray for the victims of Chernobyl in Ukraine, site of the world's worst nuclear accident.<p>Only five days had passed since the power plant explosion, but that's all the time the 21-year-old DePaul …

<b>The recent appointment of a nationalist leader, Dmytro Yarosh, to a high military position in Ukraine has sparked controversy.</b><p>In Russia he has become a focus of accusations that "fascists" and extremists control the government in Kiev.<p>However, the nature of his duties, and the extent of his …

Retired General Wesley Clark warned at an exclusive briefing with the Atlantic Council that a renewed Russian offensive in Ukraine was "imminent" and would "most probably" take place between Orthodox Easter on April 12 and Russia's celebrations of VE Day on May 9.<p>Clark said he reached this …

<b>It has been more than a month since a deal was reached to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine.</b><b>Fighting there has claimed some 6,000 lives and left more than a million people without homes since it began in early 2014.</b><b>The BBC's Natalia Antelava and Abdujalil Abdurasulov have been meeting people in</b> …

Their ire was directed at the pro-westerners who took the helm in Kiev after massive street protests ousted pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych in February last year.<p>The rebels claimed Russian-speakers in east Ukraine were under threat from the "fascist junta" in Kiev, and were hostile to plans …

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Russia threatened to aim nuclear missiles at Danish warships if Denmark joins NATO’s missile defense system, in comments Copenhagen called unacceptable and NATO said would not contribute to peace.<p>Denmark said in August it would contribute radar capacity on some of its …

Man giving name Dmitri Kovtun contacts inquiry, causing lawyers to ponder if he might give evidence by video link or face questioning by police over Russian spy's death<p>One of the suspected killers of the spy Alexander Litvinenko is willing to co-operate with the inquiry into his death.<p>A man giving …